Dealing with Cursed Projects

by Hal on December 23, 2002

in PM practice

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Dealing with Cursed Projects offers some good advice for rescuing projects. Columnist William T. Kelly advice can be summarized as engage with your project team and remember that your mood is contagious. While the advice may not appear to be radical, nonetheless it is different from the usual project behavior. So, you might ask, "How do we avoid the cursed project?" I suggest it's much of the same advice:

  1. Stay close to your team;
  2. Give them what they need;
  3. Make unconditionally constructive assessments;
  4. Keep the story (context) of the project alive; and
  5. Learn from the people performing the project through ongoing planning with them.

Too many projects become cursed…in my opinion, only due to neglect.

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